Accounting for Social Value

✍ Scribed by Laurie Mook

Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 273
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Accounting for Social Value offers academics, accountants, policy-developers, and members of non-profit, co-operative, and for-profit organizations tools and insights to explore the connections between economic, social, and environmental dimensions.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Contributors
Part I: Introduction
1. Social Accounting for the Social Economy
Part II. Developing Social Accounting Frameworks
2. Developing Techniques for Stewardship: A Scottish Study
3. Fair Trade Intermediaries and Social Accounting: The Case of Assisi Organics
4. Stakeholder Engagement in the Design of Social Accounting and Reporting Tools
5. Mixed Methods in Social Accounting: Evaluating the Micro-Loan Program of Alterna Savings Credit Union
6. The Demonstrating Value Initiative: Social Accounting for Social Enterprises
7. Measuring the Performance of Convention and Visitors Bureaus
Part III. Moving Forward
8. Environmental, Ethical Trade, and Fair Trade Purchasing Policies: Some Challenges of Promoting Sustainability in Canadian Universities
9. The Role of Intermediaries in Social Accounting: Insights from Effective Transparency Systems
10. Social Accounting: Lessons Learned for the Road Ahead

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